Kate Vitasek

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Kate Vitasek is an international authority for her award-winning research and Vested business model for highly collaborative relationships. She is the author of six books on the Vested model and a faculty member at the University of Tennessee. She has been lauded by World Trade Magazine as one of the “Fabulous 50+1” most influential people impacting global commerce.  

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Jan 04, 2019    0
Tell us about your career path. How did you get into this field? Was it purposeful or by accident? 
 
There is always a certain amount of serendipity in any career path. I am lucky when I look back over my career because I could not be where I am at without each of the building blocks. First, I am lucky that I actually work in an area that I studied in college and now ultimately teach! I definitely am a better researcher and educator because I have...
Dec 26, 2018    0
Most companies use well-known and standard competitive bidding methods to pick suppliers. The most common is the Request for Proposal (RFP). However, in many cases, a conventional RFP falls short of finding the right supplier. Why? Conventional RFPs don’t always ask the right sourcing questions and as a result generate wrong (or less than ideal) answers from suppliers.   
 
Simply put, the tried and true tools and tactics adopted over the last 30...
Nov 17, 2018    0

Kathleen Eisenhardt is a long-time professor at Stanford University, best...

Oct 09, 2018    0
Academic and author Gillian K. Hadfield is a pioneer in pushing the current legal system into the 21st century. 
 
Hadfield is a Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Toronto and the Center for Human-Compatible AI at the University of California, Berkeley. She is also teaching Legal Design Lab (with Dan Ryan) at the University of Toronto.  Her research is focused on the need to reform and redesign legal systems in market...
Aug 03, 2018    0
There’s outsourcing and then there’s strategic outsourcing. The distinction between the two seems obvious today but professors James Brian Quinn and Frederick G. Hilmer did groundbreaking work that identified and evaluated the core competencies that go into strategic outsourcing decisions in the early 1990s. Their findings are still practical today almost 20 years later. 
 
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Apr 27, 2018    0

Mary Lacity’s and Leslie Willcocks’ joint research in progressive outsourcing approaches has helped companies navigating modern outsourcing for over two decades. 

Lacity, Curators’ Distinguished Professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and a Visiting Scholar at MIT CISR, and Willcocks, Professor in Technology Work and Globalization at the Department of Management at London School of Economics and Political Science, have teamed to co-author more than...

Apr 06, 2018    0

Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) is all the rage and for a good reason. Far too many “strategic” contracts have been developed (especially outsourcing contracts) that do not include sound SRM practices. 

It’s good to see that virtually all of the major advisory firms are now incorporating solid governance frameworks into their contracts. Software companies are also making inroads, such as Old St Labs...

Mar 15, 2018    0

Nobel laureate Richard Thaler understands the “human” side of economics. He’s a founding member of behavioral economics and most recently won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics Sciences. 

The Nobel committee credited Thaler -- Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business -- with taking the behavioral field from the fringe to the academic mainstream. The Nobel committee said that by “exploring the...

Feb 03, 2018    0

I can’t believe it has been 16 years since  Clayton Christensen rocked the business world with his groundbreaking book,...

Jan 12, 2018    0

This month’s Academic of Outsourcing tribute goes to Douglass C. North for his work on “new institutional economics.” North – a professor, economist, philosopher and economic historian – was the co-recipient (with Robert Fogel) of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.” 

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